hoecake
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9.7
- noun
- /ˈhoʊkeɪk/
- Archaic
- Polly carefully flipped the hoecake on the grill, making sure it cooked evenly.
- fetch your hoecake
Examples
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You don't get perfect teeth eating sorghum syrup and hoecake.
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Fetch another hoecake when we're done
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Jenny, fetch your hoecake
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Jenny, fetch your hoecake
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Jenny, fetch your hoecake
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When she heard Mat at the kitchen door, Aunt Cass said, "Miss Nancy, do you want to take the hoecake up?" And then, seeing the change in Mat's face, which was new to it but old to the world, she hushed and stood still.
Fiction book (1992) -
We enjoyed a warm hoecake with butter during our picnic in the park.
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In the southern United States, a typical breakfast might include scrambled eggs and a crispy hoecake.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thin round cake made from batter and cooked on a pan, often served for breakfast
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2.0
A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hoecake comes from the simple practice of cooking a thin cornmeal cake on the flat blade of a hoe, a 'garden tool', over an open fire. So hoecake now means a thin, plain cornmeal cake that was once made this way.